Month: April 2007

Ripping Vinyl with GNU/Linux

Ripping Vinyl with GNU/Linux

It’s time consuming, but with the right process you can transform your vinyl collection into digital audio for archiving, sharing and playing on portable devices. To make the most of your ripped analogs, you’ll need to go a little further than just recording the audio with your sound card. There’s the whole process of normalizing […]

Home Joule

Home Joule

This is pretty interesting, a device from Ambient will give you demand response event notifications and peak Load advisory notifications so you can reduce kW usage when demand is unusually high and supply dangerously short, it’s only available in NYC at this time. If these were built in to more devices (or homes) you could […]

Fastrak autopsy

Fastrak autopsy

P914 writes – When my Fastrak tag stopped working, I decided to risk losing my $20 deposit in the name of science. It turns out that they open pretty easily by prying around the edges with a flat blade screwdriver. I posted a few photos to Flickr so everyone can see what these look like […]